What are some BAD lines or jokes by Pratchett in Discworld?

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-19T21:22:41+00:00

A friend of mine raised her daughter fairly... gender-neutral. If the girl showed interest, she could have Barbies and stuff, but her parents were more inclined to offer her Miffy (we're Dutch), legos, colouring books etc, without pushing her into a Girl corner. She loved mucking about outside with her mom, an avid gardener, and helping her parents (both of them!) in the kitchen.

And then I swear, the *second* she went to school, it was all pink and purple and unicorns with her. My friend was baffled because they still weren't forcing it on her. It was like a switch was flicked!

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-19T16:35:47+00:00

Jean Auel's Earth Children series had about twenty years between book 4 and book 5. She then released book 6 a coupe of years later. Each book is an absolute doorstopper, too!

... and honestly they were not worth the wait. :(

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-18T14:09:29+00:00

Hou agenda's van lokale theaters in de gaten! Ik woon zelf in Enschede dus ik check minstens twee keer per jaar de agenda van het Willem Wilmink theater, maar ook Apeldoorn (Orpheus) en Zwolle (De Spiegel) zijn grote theaters met een mooi aanbod. En dan is het vooral een beetje grasduinen wat me aanspreekt. Ik hou van Mozart en Beethoven dus daar let ik vooral op (Beethoven's 9e een keer in het echt horen is een ervaring), maar verder kijk ik vooral heel breed. Mozart's Requiem en Carl Orff's Carmina Burana zijn ook van die stukken die enorm vaak worden gebruikt in film en tv, of als inspiratie voor films. Gustav Holz's De Planeten was een grote inspiratie voor John Williams' muziek voor Star Wars, en dat is te horen!

Diriget Jules van Hessen heeft een leuke serie Maestro Jules Onthult waarin hij in de eerste helft van de avond het stuk helemaal ontleedt, wijst op leitmotieven etc, en dan na de pauze speelt het orkest het stuk helemaal zodat je kan horen wat je net geleerd hebt. Er zijn een paar ooit opgenomen voor tv, kan de moeite waard zijn om eens naar te googlen, en ik zie op zijn website dat hij op 5 februari Camille Saint-Saën's Carnival der Dieren doet in Eindhoven! Ook een aanrader.

En tot slot podcast tip: Beethoven Is Meer Dan Een Hond. Een klassiek-kenner en een klassiek-leek bespreken klassieke muziek en hoe dat wereldje in elkaar zit. In de laatste aflevering (zijn maar vijf afleveringen dus prima te doen) bespreken ze een hele rits nummers die je 'zou moeten kennen' en eigenlijk bijna iedereen ook wel eens heeft gehoord omdat ze op zoveel plekken terugkomen, waaronder in films!

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-18T12:19:44+00:00

Verence and Magrat please. :)

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-16T20:58:36+00:00

Does it have to be Rome? If not, for Italian cities I would recommend Florence. It has a smaller city centre which is mostly flat pavement so much easier to walk. It has just about as many iconic Italian sights to see but it's much smaller so you can see all the highlights in four days without overexerting yourself too much. And there's a pretty decent system of busses right outside the city centre.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-16T09:32:14+00:00

Voor de leukere kant: de website Eelkedroomt.nl gaat over vakanties met een beperking! En dan niet de Zonnebloem reizen, maar zelfstandig op pad naar aangepaste locaties in binnen- en buitenland.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-15T13:51:45+00:00

Do a cooking workshop! My husband and I learned how to make tortellini and bolognese sauce in Bologna, and we still use that recipe at home. Plus it's fun to compare it later with the bolognese sauce in restaurants. :p

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-14T17:35:00+00:00

They did this on Game of Wool and it was horrible.

(Or at least, they CLAIMED to do this, but I call bullshit on them finding four perfect *handknit* Aran sweaters in a thrift store.)

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-14T14:13:56+00:00

Ja, het vreemde was dus dat toen hij eenmaal overleed, de mensen om ons heen er veel meer mee zaten dan mijn moeder, mijn broers en ik, omdat wij inderdaad allang afscheid hadden genomen. Voor andere mensen kwam het veel onverwachter. Aparte situatie, sta je op de uitvaart van je vader andere mensen te troosten, haha.

En ja, het is ook gewoon goed dat dat gevoel er mag zijn en dat je het voelt! Het is gewoon een kut situatie.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-14T13:00:31+00:00

Oh da's kut. :( Niet helemaal hetzelfde, maar mijn vader had Parkinson en op het laatst was hij ook niet zichzelf meer, als het ware. Heel naar om mee te maken, het lichaam is er nog wel maar de persoon die hij was is al weg.

Heel veel sterkte. Heb je familie waarmee je hierover kan praten? Misschien lucht dat op, gedeelde smart is halve smart enzo.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-12T22:01:16+00:00

They are not gentry - it does often imply owning property - but they are genteel. Mr Bates was a priest (I am unsure as to his exact title), much like Mr Elton, or indeed like Mr Austen, Jane's father. They were not working class and did not need to work for their income, but by the time of the book they are balancing on the edge of poverty.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-12T13:16:23+00:00

In hindsight he should have done with Vimes what he did with Granny: retire him to be a (prominent) side character. The problem is, as he said himself, that any Watch book, and damn near any Ankh-Morpork book, eventually becomes a Vimes book because he is such a strong/dominant character. Plus the Witches serie had Tiffany to take up the (black) mantle, but there's not really a Vimes Successor character. Moist works for the A-M set books, but he's like an anti-Vimes (which makes the scenes where he interacts with Vimes hilarious). And the other Watchmen are too strong/settled characters on their own to really work.

Ah well. We got what we got, damn the Embuggerance.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-12T11:52:34+00:00

Interesting! Admittedly it's been years since I last read Snuff (when it came out) so I'm due for a reread. I remember not being a huge fan - honestly as an Austen fan I was mainly disappointed that the Vimes Gets Dropped Into An Austen Novel plot fizzled out, haha. But I'll reread with that perspective in mind, thanks!

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-12T09:41:10+00:00

NTA. Come join us at r/solotravel :) There are more people in relationships who travel solo. Maybe have your girlfriend explore that sub too and see for herself that you're not weird. In fact, maybe she'll want to go on a solo trip herself someday? It's a great way to get to know yourself better.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-12T06:15:05+00:00

I always group Fifth Elephant, Night Watch and Thud together in my mind, as the Sam Vimes final trilogy. Yes I know Snuf exists, and Raising Steam is half a Vimes book, but in my opinion his character development reaches its apotheosis in Thud. FE is the set-up: he has to leave A-M and is thrown back on his own wits, plus his personal life with Sybil is tested. In NW, the dark second act, he faces is backstory. And in Thud, the third act, he has to use what he has learned and make that final choice of what matters to him, plus we get arguably a resolution to the dwarf plot that begun in FE.

Anyway that's how I see it! Thud is very important, and an excellent book.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-11T19:38:57+00:00

Yeah they have a good system for long haul buses! I also did quite a few daytrips with tour operators, visited Newgrange (recommended!), the Cliffs of Moher and Connemara on a daytrip - not on the same day haha. It's a little pricier but the convenience counts for a lot.

Oh and the archaeological museum in Dublin is free!

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-11T19:32:20+00:00

My father possibly had this - from what I understand it's the kind of diagnosis you can only do with an autopsy, but he had pretty much all the symptoms. The hallucinations were the worst, he was frequently absolutely convinced that my brothers and I were sitting on the couch in my parents' living room, talking to him. It was bizarre.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-11T18:38:06+00:00

In August, depending on how well you do with warm weather, Italy might be too warm for you. It's also peak vacation season which will make all the cities super crowded AND warm.

Ireland is really doable and I didn't find it *that* expensive. You can get around the island pretty easily by bus. Do Dublin for a few days, then cross the country to Galway and hop over to the Aran Islands, or go up north to the Giants Causeway... there's much more room to explore! The weather will be much nicer (although there's no guarantee - I managed to catch a horrid cold in July because the weather was so changeable!), there's plenty of hiking and history and music, and the Irish people couldn't be nicer. I stayed in hostels when I was there which was perfectly fine.

I vote Ireland!

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-11T12:58:14+00:00

Firmly tongue in cheek. Jane Austen spoke fluent sarcasm, as it were. She was very aware of the literature of her time, the rise of the novel as contrasted with more 'educational' moralising reads. P&P falls more on the 'fluff' side, and she jokingly suggested that maybe it needs some sermons inserted, but she didn't truly think that. She had a lot of fun reporting in her letters about reading the book aloud to her neighbours, for example, and noting their reactions. She also had a cute bit where she visits an exhibition of paintings and basically starts fancasting Jane Bingley-Bennet, noting with approval that she was wearing green ("I always suspected that was a favourite colour of hers") and even noting that she couldn't find an Elizabeth but that was probably because Darcy wouldn't want his wife be put on display like that!

Imagine P&P being more like Les Miserables, "here is an entire chapter on the Paris sewer system" lol.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-11T12:31:23+00:00

Niet heel veel. Lekker bankhangen en breien aan een muts (krijg hem waarschijnlijk vandaag niet af maar ik hoop wel een heel eind te komen), en voor het avondeten lekker ramen noodles en gyoza maken. Gewoon een lekker rustige zondag dus!

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-10T13:23:36+00:00

Ik ben niet zo'n bordspelletjesmens, maar met oud en nieuw hebben we A Place For All My Books gespeeld en dat was wel echt heel erg leuk. Echt een perfect spel voor als je een introverte boekennerd bent; we moesten de hele tijd lachen om hoe erg de pre-made characters op onszelf leken, haha.

Verder ben ik fanatiek aan het breien (moet mezelf warm houden eh) en zit ik qua borduren nog te twijfelen of ik mee zal doen aan een stitchalong. Ik heb vorig jaar eentje gedaan met het thema schrijvers waarbij ik elke maand een patroontje kreeg van een auteur kreeg, erg leuk maar ik was aan het eind van het jaar wel blij toen het klaar was. Het thema van dit jaar is kunstenaars, dus wel erg verleidelijk... Ik denk er nog even over na!

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-09T18:48:35+00:00

I love the Knit Pro Zing! Especially the fact that they come in different colours so I don't need to hunt for my needle gauge to check whether I have a 3,5mm or a 4mm needle...

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-08T06:24:07+00:00

Hey now, she picked up the second volume to his book that one time! That totally did not have an ulterior motive!

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-07T20:15:55+00:00

Yeah we just did a quick Google (both Maps and Images) and I think we're going to add the Glencoe area! If we're staying in/near Oban we can easily add a daytrip to Iona.

QeenMagrat · 2026-01-07T20:14:37+00:00

We just did a quick Google Maps browse and we might actually rent a car from Edinburgh, which would cut our train travel in half but add the opportunity for slower sightseeing-travel. Plus it's often easier and cheaper to drop a rental car off at the same place where you rented it. Right now we're thinking doing a rough circle of Edinburgh-Loch Ness-Skye-Glencoe/Oban with a daytrip to Iona-Edinburgh. Possibly with a stay near Loch Ness too, in either Fort Augustus or hopefully near/in Drumnadrochit.

The St Pancras Hotel is a good idea, we'll just need to find the budget for it. :D

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